Not only do you get a Crystal clear organic tone with this next gen pickup, you also get less saturation on the pedals (because of less gain on frequencies input to the signal by the wrapped wire on the traditional humbuckers), sweet notes 24/7, killer harmonics and sustain, and killer harmonics sustain!! Even though this delivers a noiseless signal it doesn't color your sound like an active preamp/pickup will! Clean playing sounds like its resonating with a natural chorus, and every note delivers its full frequencies, instead of getting some sweet frequencies cancelled out by the wiring on traditional humbuckers. Oh yeah! I wont lie, I love this pickup's sound over any traditional humbucker, but its a giant's faceoff when compared to the Blackout Preamp from Seymour Duncan. Both are great technologies, but full frequency response just has no match!! Traditional pickups can be fixed by raising a specific mid/high frecuency, yes the one the wires cancel out, with an overdrive's saturation or voicing knobs; the Alumitone technology doesn't cancel anything out specially the sweet frequencies!